In spite of an economic recovery, it isn’t quite business as usual—or business-circa-1999—for beleaguered North American IT pros
Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers
Seagull Software’s Andre Den Haan isn’t a knee-jerk contrarian—but he also isn’t afraid to call it as he sees it
The advance of grid computing will bring in new capabilities, cut costs dramatically, enable increasingly ambitious projects, and offer more advanced capabilities to customers. While the implementation details are different for each industry, some strategies are common to all. We explore three strategies.
Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.
We explore industry verticals that are are pioneers in grid adoption or illustrate significant, untapped benefits from grid adoption.
Organizations want to proactively identify and retain top employee performers before they can be identified and potentially wooed away by rivals.
IBM's vision puts the mainframe in the center of a distributed application ecosystem that consumes data served up by zIIP workload engines
A core capability of the grid is parallel distributed computation—scaling application performance beyond what is possible with one computer or grid “node.” Unfortunately, most applications today don’t take advantage of parallel computing.
What’s not to like about z/Linux and other cheap mainframe workloads?
Fully 12 percent of CIOs expect to hire new IT workers in the upcoming quarter
Tardy SCO denied in bid to depose industry heavyweights Intel and Oracle
One benefit of the hierarchical framework for grids introduced last week is that it helps us discover (and provides insight into) key constituencies in a grid ecosystem and its dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental to building a sound grid strategy.
Instead of embracing training as an investment in a savvy and innovative IT workforce, companies tend to view it as an encumbrance
Organizations do successfully manage people and process changes en route to large scale enterprise transformations. Here’s how.
We explore what grids are, their usefulness, and how they should be implemented and deployed.
Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?
A great way to understand the power and benefits of grids is to look at the philosophy and two key properties they share with large transportation systems.
How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future
GM, Dell, and Gap all notched mega outsourcing deals, but Sprint Nextel backed out of its own outsourcing accord with IBM